Epitonium (Gyroscala)
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EpitoniumPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Life habit
- semi-infaunalPBDB, for Epitonium
- Motility
- slow-movingPBDB, for Epitoniidae
- Vision
- limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 0 Mya.
10 occurrences of Epitonium (Gyroscala) on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
10 occurrences- Eocene30%
- Miocene20%
- Pliocene20%
- Pleistocene20%
- Holocene10%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Blackheath Beds Formation1
- Entrerriense Formation1
- Cook Mountain Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Mare Formation1
- Domanda Formation1
- Olcese Formation1
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The named rock units Epitonium (Gyroscala) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Epitonium (Gyroscala) and its relatives
EoceneWhere Epitonium (Gyroscala) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
292 taxa- Calyptraea3 sites
- Aulacomya atra2 sites
- Calyptraea kilburni2 sites
- Carditella2 sites
- Chiton2 sites
- Clanculus2 sites
- Corbula2 sites
- Diodora2 sites
- Fissurella2 sites
- Lutraria2 sites
- Modiolus2 sites
- Patella2 sites
- Petricola2 sites
- Phaxas2 sites
- Striostrea margaritacea2 sites
- Tellina2 sites
- Turbo2 sites
- Turritella (Torquesia) carinifera2 sites
- Venus2 sites
- Vermetus2 sites
- Acipenser1 site
- Acirsa1 site
- Acteon1 site
- Aequipecten opercularis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Epitonium (Gyroscala), and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
9 references- Late Tertiary and Early Quaternary Fossil Mollusca for the Hondeklip Area, Cape Province, South Africa2
- Unpublished notes on Caribbean collection of Jack and Winifred Gibson-Smith, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel1
- New Species of Mollusca from the Entrerriense Formation (Upper Miocene) of Chubut Province, Argentina and species not previously reported from this formation. Part 1 - Gastropoda and Scaphopoda1
- Macrofauna del Pleistocene inferiore di Cinisi (Sicilia)1
- Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Turritellidae through Strombidae)1
- Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California1
- Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Pteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda1
- A contribution to the study of the Eocene in Western Pakistan and Western India: C. The description of the Scaphopoda and Gastropoda from standard sections in the Rakhi Nala and Zindar Pir areas of the Western Punjab and in the Kohat District1
- The Lower Eocene Mollusca of Abbey Wood and of High Halstow1
Each of the 10 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Epitonium (Gyroscala) was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Epitonium (Gyroscala), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Epitonium (Gyroscala) was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEpitonium through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Boury 1887)